Raking Impact of a Diesel Multiple Unit Fuel Tank: Tests and Analysis

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• Creators:
  Jacobsen, Karina ; Carolan, Michael
• Corporate Creators:
  John A. Volpe National Transportation Systems Center (U.S.)
• Corporate Contributors:
  United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Railroad Administration
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  • Crash tests
  • Crashworthiness
  • Diesel multiple unit cars
  • Finite element method
  • Fuel tanks
  • Passenger trains
  • Puncture resistance
• Publication/ Report Number:
  JRC2020-8088
• Resource Type:
  Proceedings
• Geographical Coverage:
  United States
• Corporate Publisher:
  John A. Volpe National Transportation Systems Center (U.S.)
• Abstract:
  The Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) sponsors research on safety topics to address and to improve safety regulations and standards. This paper focuses on the latest research and testing conducted to evaluate passenger locomotive fuel tank integrity. Fuel tank integrity regulations, in the form of a series of static load conditions, currently exist to set a minimum level of protection against an impact to the fuel tank that might puncture the tank and cause the release of diesel fuel. The current research program involves a series of dynamic impact tests and quasistatic tests that measures the forces required to deform a fuel tank and investigate the types of loading conditions experienced by fuel tanks
• Format:
  PDF
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/60550/dot_60550_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 2.21 MB]
• Collection(s):
  Volpe Center
• Main Document Checksum:
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